The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-03-25
THEIR LAST HOPE.


The Anarchists Appeal for a New Trial
Under Consideration by the Illinois SUI
preme Court-Speeches of the Counsel
on Both Sides-The Case Taken Under
Advisement-A Decision Not Looked for
Before FALL
OTTAWA, ILL.,, March 1s.-The Supreme
Court opened promptly at nine o'clock
yesterday morning, Judge Sheldon, acting
Chief Justice, presiding, and No. /, The
People vs. Spies ct al, was called. After
brief silence Leonard SWEET arose and
addressed the Court He affirmed abso-
lutte innocence of the crimes charged;
claimed that the court below committed
errors, and that the defendants were tried
by partial jury. Neebe's crime was
drinking beer while peddler sold Most,s
book at picnic. The evidence against
Fielden was on facts after the
bomb was thrown, while he was
indicted for aiding and abetting it. Mr..
SWEET pictured Spies and Schwab, two
Dutchmen, plotting in an alley in English, as
contrary to nature He spent half an hour
ridiculing Gilmer's ties timony, showing that
he either lied o. looked around square
corner. Much time was taken up explain
ing the Haymarket meeting. Lingg was
a bomb-malzer. If it was shown that
the bombs were made for the Haymarket
meeting he should be hanged higher than
Haman, but the gap iii the evidence makes
him no more guilty than the makers of
guns or powder He declared that IL
legal evidence was the key to con-
viction, and denounced every thing
relating to the reading and sale of
Mosts book as Illegal. The speaker
consumed time in reading from Most's
writing, and pronounced it lot of damna-
ton put in evidence against defendants by
attorneys who knewno bounds and before
a jury who knew nc. reason. The court be-
low used thumb-screws to extort testi-
mony, contrary to the constitution.
Mr.. SWEET closed at eleven O'Clock, when
George G. Ingham occupied the attention
of the court until recess for dinner, and
resumed at twoo'clock. His address was
a powerful one, devoted to the facts, COM
mencing with the inception of the
conspiracy, and following the con-
spirators step by step up to the Hay
market tragedy, quoting Spies at Grand
Rapids Mich, giving the work of propoga-
ton of the platform of the International
lists, the Alarm and Arbeiter- Zeitung articles,
the code of ethics and instructions, de-
scrlbing the different groups, the armed
sections, drilling, and the manufacture of
the bombs by Lingg, connecting each and
every one of the condemned with the con-
spiracy which eliminated in the death Of
Officer began at the Haymarket.
Mr.. Zeisler followed Ingham, and de.
voted the first hour to an attack upon the
jury, and followed with the claim that two
of the principal witnesses for the people
were impeached. He briefly reviewed the
evidence to prove that the defendants were
not present at the Haymarket. He closed
with an attack upon the judge and jury,
terming the sentence of the prisoners as
judicial murder.
OTTAWA. ILL.,, March 19.--In the Supreme
Court yesterday States Attorney GrinnelI
argued in behalf of the prosecution in the
Anarchist cases. He denied that the YER
lict was produced through Difference to
public opinion, but was a natural result of
the testimony presented. 'sThis case is not
great because of unknown questions of
law; not great because of seven lives
at stake; but great because it is to test the
institutions of this country. am not
scared by the statement that anarchy is on
trial, for it is"
EEiir. GrinneH then took up and analysed
the case of jurors whom it was claimed
were incompetent. His digest of the evil
dence given by the jurors and the COM
ments was mastery effort. The last hour
of Mr.. Grinnell's time supplemented Mr..
Ingham's exposition OF the great con-
spiracy, and the speeches of Spies, Par
sons and Fielden at the Haymarket
meeting were analysed, and reports of
the meeting read. "The jury" Mr.. Grin
nell maintained, twas an impartial one.
The excitement at the time of the trial was
a proper one. We have anchored here to
ascertain whether the law is big enough to
protect itself" He closed with powerful
appeal that the verdict be sustained.
Attorney-General Hunt made the closing
argument for the State Said he:
1--WE stand by old English common law. 1t
is co-extensive with the domain of rascality. I
shall consider these laws as relating to conspir-
acy and accessories, so clearly established by
my associates. Our theory is resistance
of officers of the law and the destruc-
ton of the police force of Chicago.
Rapids; from the conspiracy organs
in German and English; from the acts
and declarations of all the conspirators, it is
seen that they all converge to one point of time
when workmen were expected to be idle and
excited The action of the authorities and police
was justifiable under the law. The resistance
was an act of malignity performed, as the re-
suit shows, by one experienced in the art
of mountaineering. The destruction of
the police was the first step to lead to the es-
Enlistment of a new order of things but their
guilt depends upon no such narrow grounds as
the haymarket riot alone. They are convicted
of plans and purposes to bring conflict about
and of preparations to oppose the law and Off
GERS by force and dynamite"
Mr.. Hunt devoted his closing hour to the
instructions given in Judge Gary's court.
His was the logical argument for the State.
Captain Black closed the arguments in
an address on behalf of the condemned
men. He claimed in all sincerity that the
plaintiffs in error, whom l represent, are
here asking justice We claim that upon a
fair construction of the evidence adjusted
in this record under the rules of law as
properly qualified thereto these plaintiffs
in error are shown to be innocent of the
crime of which they stand charged and of
the commission of which they have been
convicted. In reference to that conviction,
we claim that it was unjust. We claim
that this conviction was adduced by the
the application of improper rules of law
administered by q gpfejudiced court. y
The Haymarket meeting was then gone
over, counsel stating that the meeting
consisted of about forty and not of
eighty members. He showed that the meet
ing was not conspiracy, and that no
trouble was anticipated by the members,
but that the expression had been made by
the members of the International that no
trouble would result. He closed by saying
that as the barbarians had done-choose a
victim from the opposite section when one
of their number had been killed-so it had
been done here.
If affirmed, the decision will not be an,
nounced before next September; fire
versed, It may re made in May or June.
"A man was found dead by the road
side in Alameda County. He had one
eye only, and his nose was broken, fur
nishin0. one would think. annie means